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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: rylan AT inbtekom DOT co DOT za, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:15:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: Data Locking
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"Rylan" <rylan AT intekom DOT co DOT za> wrote:

> Why it is neccessary to "lock" data before trying to load or save it under
> DJGPP - I am new to protected mode and wonder why you need to do this - it
> is not neccessary under real mode?

Where did you got this idea? 
You must lock memory that will be used from inside an interrupt handler 
because you must be sure the code/data will be there when the interrupt 
appears. That's a little bit DOS/DPMI specific.

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